Been reading a paper on infantry weapon development, performance and recommendations which examined the Garand, M14 and AR15/M16 rifles.
Interesting that in the hands of trained infantry in all cases, the Garand outperformed the M14 for typical small-unit engagements.
While it has to be reloaded more often, a higher average rate of fire was maintained with the Garand (57 rnds/minute) than the M14 (40 rnds/minute).
Guess changing the box magazine on the M14 takes some extra time.
For all expected types of small unit engagements, the M16 was far superior.
It also examined why so few troops fired their rifles in WWII combat. With all the marksmanship training, troops didn't fire unless they actually saw someone to shoot at.
Makes sense since folks won't ordinarily expose themselves as a target. By the Korean war, training had troops shooting at an area where the enemy was located. A higher percentage of troops fired their rifles.

Arguing with someone who denounces reason is like administering medicine to a corpse.

On rock & roll you can empty a mag asap, you most likely will not hit a thing, but it puts out some rounds. I had it in Boot, on the range and overseas. I like the M14. It is what I qualified expert on when I could still see.
Here is some other info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kouOZkgZliA

I think the Garand is quicker to reload it does take time to take a mag out and stick a new one in.

It's too bad the M14 was used for the 1st time in a jungle war were the lighter 5.56 had an advantage at short range. Sometimes at close ranges they found the 30-06 and 7.62x51 would go right through a person and not do too much damage.
Didn't the Winchester mag fed garand shoot 960 rounds a minute.

Well while the M14 had a good number of issues, reloading wasn't one of them. I can't imagine ANYONE being able to put more volume on target with a Garand than an M14. Personally, I would want to see more reports where that consistently happened before I gave any credence to it. Let's remember, the US military has a LONG history of rigging their tests to get the results they wanted.